Bedclothes-holder



(No Model.)

I I. G. BOWER.

' BED CLOTHES HOLDER. No. 309,687. Patented Dec. 23, 1884.

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ISAAC G. IIOIVER, OF FREHONT, OHIO.

BEDCLQTHES HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 309,687, dated December 23, 1884.

A pplication filed December 26, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, I. G. Bowen, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in BedclothesI-Iolders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention pertains to an improvement in clothes-holders for securing bed-clothingin position on bedsteads, cots, cribs, cradles, d c. especially when covering persons sleeping beneath it, and also for holding clamped together the several pieces or folds which ordinarily comprise the clothing of a bed, sub stantially as hereinafter more fully shown and described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of my bedclothes-holder, and Fig. 2 is a modification thereof as applied to the bedclothes.

In the construction of my clothesholder I cast integral with its lower jaw, A, the screw 13, its upper jaw, I3, being provided with a female screw for reception of the hand-wheel 0, having integral therewith the vertical screw 0.

In order to cause the lower end of the vertical screw 0 to be quickly lowered in inclasping the clothes, or in like manner elevated in releasing them, and hence that the vertical screw may be projected down or elevated to the maximum extent with the fewest rotations of the hand-wheel O, the vertical screw 0 may be provided with two or more parallel screwthreadsdnstead of one continuous screwthread, as customary in such devices, the male screw-threads being adapted to a coincident female screw provided in jaw B. The lower jaw, A, is also slightly enlarged and provided with a flaring recess, a, adapted as to size for reception of the bed-clothing where compressed into it by the lower end of the verti cal screw of handwheel 0, thus holding the clothing rigidly against its accidental with drawal, as aforesaid.

The screw Bis designed for screwing the holders into the longitudinal or lateral crossbars of the bed-frame, and the clothes at the bottom of the bed, being clamped against the lower jaw, A, by the vertical screw of handwheel 0, are thus held against the possibility of accidental removal.

The clothes-holders are also designed for clamping together the several articles of bedclothing at the upper part or head of the bed.

Having thus fully described my invention, whatI claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A bedclothes holder having integral therewith screw B, for securing it to the bedbars, and recess a, in connection with clamp A, having jaws A and B, hand-Wheel O, and vertical screw O, for clamping the bed-clothing, substantially as shown, and for the purpose described.

2. In a bedclothes-holder, the clamp A, having jaws A and B, hand-wheel 0, vertical screw 0, and screw B, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ISAAC G. BOWER. \Vitnesses:

J AMES H. FOWLER, J. E. DRIESBAOH. 

